Origin: Greek suffix -ology
Stemmatology has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)
"stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"
"transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics"
Synonym of stemmatics